Williams v. State

¶ 83. The first issue in this case requires that this Court determine whether there was enough evidence to require granting David Jackson Williams’s request for a lesser non-included instruction on assisted suicide. The majority finds that there was insufficient evidence to justify instructing the jury on Williams’s defense theory that he assisted in Demetria Bra-cey’s suicide. But for the Mississippi Supreme Court’s clearly-established precedent to the contrary, I would agree with the majority. However, this Court is an intermediate appellate court, and as such, we have no authority to…